Fundraising FoxFOW Partners
Private equityPortland · Seed–Growth · 17 people tracked
Find your way into FOW Partners
Sign up to find every way you can get introduced to FOW Partners
- Your email: who you already know at FOW Partners, and who your contacts know
- 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections: people you know who worked, studied or invested with the FOW Partners team
- Your LinkedIn: the connections who can make the intro for you
We rank every route by how warm it is, so you raise on warm intros instead of cold emails.
Investment thesis
FoW Partners invests in service-centric buy-and-build platforms in the healthcare and consumer services sectors, targeting businesses where the workforce is crucial to success. The firm believes differentiated workforce strategies combined with technology and AI-enabled transformation of service delivery drive the largest impact on business performance. Beyond private equity buy-and-builds, FoW makes growth and venture investments in Future of Work technology that augments workers and reduces friction between employees and employers. The firm also applies data and AI to improve decision-making across the investment lifecycle. It emphasizes job quality, having built a Good Job Score tool, and works closely with management teams to foster long-term success and accelerate growth.
Source: firm website, verified Oct 2, 2026.
Team · 17 people
from the firm's website
What they invest in
from 11 of 15 portfolio companiesSaaS ×5AI & Machine Learning ×4Enterprise Software ×4Healthtech ×4Digital Health ×3HR Tech ×2Mental Health ×2Advanced Manufacturing ×1
HQs:United States×8
Investments · 15 tracked
founders shown can be your intro path
Benepass provides flexible benefits platforms that enable employers to offer personalized, choice-based employee benefits aligned with company values and DEI initiatives.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechHR TechSaaSNew York City, US
Jaclyn Chen(Founder)inMark Fischer(Founder)inKabir Soorya(Founder)in
BoardMatthew Alfieri(Director)inStephanie Choo(Director)Mohammad Islam(Director)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesAmino CapitalCentana Growth PartnersCentana PartnersClocktower VenturesElysium Ventures+13 more
-2.png)
Community Medical Services operates an opioid treatment program providing medication-assisted treatment, counseling, and peer support for opioid use disorder across 70+ clinics in multiple states.
Digital HealthHealthtechMental HealthWellness & FitnessPhoenix, US
Co-investorsFFL Partners
Elevated Veterinary Solutions operates a network of animal hospitals and equips veterinary teams with technology such as smart scheduling, integrated payments, AI-assisted diagnostics, wireless monitoring, and voice-to-text charting.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechSaaS
Eclipse Advantage provides on-site workforce and labor solutions—including hourly associates, cost-per-unit container unloading, and on-demand support teams—for logistics, warehousing, and manufacturing operations.
Advanced ManufacturingFuture of WorkLogistics & Supply Chain
Milestone Technologies is a technology services company that outlines its corporate social responsibility program, covering environmental sustainability, workplace inclusion and belonging, community outreach, and employee learning and development.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareImpact & Social GoodFremont, US
Sameer Kishore(Chief Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsH.I.G. CapitalH.I.G. Growth PartnersHalifax Group
Skan AI builds a process intelligence and agentic automation platform that uses computer vision to observe how work actually gets done, generating a "Context Graph of Work" for large, highly regulated enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSMenlo Park, US
Avinash Misra(Executive Officer, Director)inManish Garg(Director)inRaman Khanna(Director)in
BoardSimon Wu(Director)inJocelyn Goldfein(Director)in
Co-investorsBloomberg BetaCathay InnovationCiti VenturesDell Technologies CapitalGSR VenturesZetta Venture Partners+2 more
Workhelix provides enterprise leaders with real-time visibility into their AI adoption, quantifying time saved, mapping AI opportunities, and linking usage to business outcomes.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBeaverton, US
Erik Brynjolfsson(Director)inAndrew McAfee(Director)inDaniel Rock(Director)inShaun Johnson(Director)inJames Milin(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsAI FundAIX VenturesBloomberg BetaAccenture VenturesBenhamou Global VenturesBGV+1 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Elevated Veterinary SolutionsInvested: April 2021Penn Foster GroupResiXperts
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Skan · thenextweb.com · Aug 12, 2026
Benepass · thesaasnews.com · Jan 22, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has FOW Partners made?
- FOW Partners has 15 tracked investments.
- What stage does FOW Partners invest at?
- FOW Partners invests at the Seed, Growth stages.
- What sectors does FOW Partners focus on?
- FOW Partners focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Future of Work, Healthtech.
- Where is FOW Partners located?
- FOW Partners is headquartered in Portland, US.
- Who does FOW Partners co-invest with?
- FOW Partners most often shares deals with Bloomberg Beta, Cathay Innovation, Centana Growth Partners, among 23 tracked co-investors.
Similar investors
Aspect Ventures is a venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs to build transformative businesses across sectors including security, fintech, and workforce technology.
Brighteye Ventures is an early-stage venture firm backing founders building the 'HumanOS' — technology that helps people learn, work, and adapt.
daphni is a venture capital firm that describes its approach as human-driven, community-powered and tech-augmented, backed by a community of over 400 members.
First Round Capital is an early-stage venture firm partnering with founders at the very first stages of company creation, backing companies from angel through seed with hands-on support across GTM, recruiting, and operations.
Flybridge Capital Partners is an East Coast venture capital firm backing early-stage, AI-focused startups. Founded in 2002, it invests at the pre-seed and seed stages across AI applications, infrastructure, and related sectors.